This is an analysis of the poem Thoughts On The Shape Of The Human Body that begins with:
How can we find? how can we rest? how can
We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbbecddXXhhiidhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111111 11011111101 1011000101 1101001101 0101010101 1011110101 1111111111 01011101101 1101010101 1111111111 1111010101 10010100101 10010101111 01010100101 1001000101 0101110001 11011110001 01001010101 1111011100 110101101011 1111010011 1011111100 1100000100 1111000100 1001001111 1001011011 1101010010 1011000110 10001110001 10010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1288
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, how, can, and, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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